Published by subscription in 113 parts

For details about the publication history of this edition, see the article by R.J. Cleevely, "The Sowerbys, Mineral conchology, and their fossil collection" in the Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, volume 6 (1974), pages 418-481; and also the article by Cleevely and C.W. Wright, "Authorship and dates of the Sowerbys' Mineral conchology of Great Britain" in the Bulletin of zoological nomenclature volume 42 (1985), pages 64-71

Volume 7 was never completed and was published without title page or index. Plates 643-648 have no descriptions

The work was continued from volume 4 by James de Carle Sowerby and Charles Edward Sowerby

Imprint varies. Volume 2 has imprint: London. Printed by Arding and Merrett ... and sold by the author, J. Sowerby ...; Sherwood and Co. ... and by all booksellers in town and country, 1818; volume 3 has imprint: London. Printed by W. Arding ... and sold by the author J. Sowerby ...; Longman and Co. and Sherwood and Co., 1821; volume 4 has imprint: London. Printed by W. Arding ... and sold by J.D.C. and C.E. Sowerby ...; Longman and Co., and Sherwood and Co. ..., 1823; volume 5 and 6 have imprint: London. Printed by Richard Taylor ... and sold by J.D.C. and C.E. Sowerby ... G.B. Sowerby; Longman & Co., and Sherwood and Co., 1825[-1829]

Volumes 1-4 contain supplementary indexes and notes by J. Farey

Includes indexes

Many of the specimens described were later acquired by the British Museum

E. Petit;

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SCNHRB copy is imperfect: part 105 of volume 6 is wanting (including a portrait of James Sowerby, a preface to the general indexes and the systematical index to the six volumes by J. de C. Sowerby, on pages [239]-250)

SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. Katherine H. Van Winkle Palmer, with her autograph on the front free endpapers; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment

SCNHRB copy was acquired from the collection of the late malacologist, bibliographer and bookseller Richard E. Petit

SCNHRB copy has tipped in at the back of the volume: an article reprinted from the Magazine of natural history, new series, 1839, pages 254-263[?], entitled "Strictures upon the commencement of a publication entitled 'Conchologie mineralogique de la Grande Bretagne, par James Sowerby --traduction francaise revue, corrigee, augmentee par L. Agassiz, with a reply by Prof. Agassiz, and a letter from Mr. J.D.C. Sowerby."

SCNHRB copy of volume 7 has stamp on front free endpaper: Penzance Library; with engraved bookseller's label on the front paste down endpaper: Bound by Walker & Son, Plymouth. At the time of cataloging (November 2015), some of the conjoined leaves of text were still unopened

SCNHRB copy has later gilt-tooled half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards, endpapers, and edges; and raised bands.The binding for volume 7 is similar to the uniform binding style of volumes 1-6, but made with different marbled paper and leather

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